Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1627 - Dan Gable
Uploaded: 2021-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1627 - Dan Gable' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-31. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1627 - Dan Gable

is that so you're telling me that this mask is this is a wrestling does this
have anything to
do with your your museum yes it's the national wrestling hall of fame but this
is the the one
out of stillwater oklahoma and we the one we have is a subsidiary one it's
called the national wrestling
hall of fame dan gable museum in waterloo my hometown but they own it and see
oklahoma and i
were big rivalries in wrestling over history and this these museums kind of
help bring us together
so uh it's it's pretty pretty interesting so um so the mag is these these
actually masks are just the
ones out of still water i don't know if we have ones in waterloo or not but but
lex friedman told
me that you have a hard time even walking around in iowa that uh people will
swarm you
you know when they don't swarm me is when i'm gonna have to worry about you
know because i'm for
the sport of wrestling and i love that sport and it's been my life and i can i
want it to continue
to be and it's a little bit difficult sport so you know it's something that
keeps me um appreciative
but it also i promote it out there and as long as people i i'm okay with it my
might irritate my
family a little bit once in a while but they love the sport too so they got to
expect some of this
stuff well coming from a guy that has accomplished what you've accomplished and
has become this
legendary feature in the sport it it comes with the territory there's no way
around it i mean you're
you're a beloved character in the sport of wrestling to the to the point where
i told people you're
going to be on my podcast and their eyebrows raise up like people get very
excited well you know i'm
glad you said that because every time i tell somebody their eyebrows do the
same when i'm going on this
show and so of course you know i i knew about this show but i had to do a lot
of homework just to see
wow you know it's pretty big so you know i'm excited to be here because i know
the effect it can have
not just on me because you know but on the sport you know and i love the sport
and it's my hometown of
waterloo was that's why i got started in it because it was just dominating
wrestling at the time and you
know what's funny is that just from a world situation sport brings people
together and you know it's like
who better than a sport with russia or iran you know or north korea because you
know it's like or turkey
you know you know they just you know especially the first two you know they
just uh we're always in
conflict it seems like with them but when it comes to wrestling we have
something in common and
we usually end up losing to both russia and iran but sometimes we beat them too
and we are well known
for uh good wrestling and that that has helped i think the country uh be better
off i had jordan burrows on
and he was describing to me what it's like to wrestle in iran and how massive
the sport is over
there and he's a giant star over there and he's like and people are so friendly
and so so inviting
and so accepting and just so happy to see great wrestling and just wrestling is
just an enormous sport
over there and uh immensely popular well when i won the olympics in 1972 their
most popular athlete was
the guy in my weight class wow uh the the iranian and uh i'd been in the worlds
a year before but before
that he had two world he had two olympic titles and every world title in
between and all of a sudden
he became so popular that the government was a little concerned about him that
the people were
more appreciative of him than the government and so when he went to the munich
olympics
even though he had he had lost the year before because i was there and i won
the weight class we
didn't get to wrestle but he was there and representing iran in 72 and he won
his first match by about 15
points but he pulled out of the olympics and he he ended up going to the united
states because of his
being so popular that he was scared they they might do something to him well at
the government level i'm
sure you're aware of what happened recently with the wrestler who was killed
the iranian wrestler who was
killed because he was in a involved in a peaceful protest and they made an
example out of him yeah and
they claimed that he killed somebody but you know you can claim whatever you
want to to help satisfy
the people but chances are he didn't chances are he didn't it seemed like what
they were doing was
just making sure that people were scared yeah and that if they can kill a man
who's so beloved and
you know a national hero they can kill anybody yeah and the iranian that came
here
lives uh still here in the united states yeah it's uh wrestling to me is uh it's
one of the most
important sports because it's one of the very few sports that doesn't have a
real i mean there's
obviously wwe wrestling and a lot of guys go from wrestling into mma but there's
not a real professional
venue i mean jordan burroughs does some legit wrestling actual you know amateur
style wrestling
and and gets paid for matches and stuff now and has sponsorships and the like
and i'm very happy that
he gets recognized and some other wrestlers get recognized but it's not like
basketball it's not like
any other sport where you have uh olympic champions go on boxing and become
huge stars at a professional
level with wrestling it's it's one of the few sports where the people that
participate in it
they take pride in the fact that they work in silence they take pride in the
fact that they they grind
they take pride in the fact that they they are miserable that their training is
unbelievably intense
and that it's so much more intense than most sports if you had to compare like
what an elite
baseball player does for you're smiling right versus an elite wrestler i mean
it's not even comparable
no but i appreciate all the sports because i have so many grandkids and and a
lot of their dads are
even baseball players football players and and even coaches at that level so uh
you know it's pretty
interesting because like one of the the baseball coach uh for my local where i
live in iowa city is
he's got a son named gable actually and he's first team all state but in in
baseball but when he was
back in college he was dating my daughter and he came to our wrestling practice
and we were just doing
a running practice that morning early morning and and uh we were doing court
less little less than quarter
mile runs and i'd give him a little time in between of course but uh he he just
wanted to try out what what
we were doing to see how it compared to what he how he trained that way i'm
sure they train different ways
but he made one really good lap and he stayed right with the group right in
there i i think he claims he
might have made another one i don't know if it was the second or the third but
we were going to do eight
and so i think by the second or the third he was in a full squat and he couldn't
i mean his legs just
went out on him and he couldn't do it and i tell you i think it showed
appreciation from him right away
from that point of view so that's that's pretty interesting that you bring that
up i don't think
there's any sport like it in terms of the amount of effort that's required and
also the the margin
of of fitness and of technique required for victory like at the elite level
there's so many great wrestlers
both on the national level and the international level that it really requires
this insane level
of dedication to rise to the top well you mentioned jordan burles and i you
know jordan burles was a
good wrestler in high school and he was a good wrestler in college i became a
great wrestler at the end of
college but i shouldn't even say great because you have another level and that's
that world and an olympic
level and i don't think he really realized his talent and abilities a lot of it's
just because
it is a tough sport and that every practice is a somewhat of a grind and and
everything that you do
but but if you stick with it long enough the mind can develop as well and it's
when the when jordan
burles mind developed to where he felt he was a great wrestler instead of just
he's a good wrestler but
this other guy's good and it's going to be a tough match but he stayed in it
long enough worked at it
hard enough where he was able to develop beyond the tools that you need for
being on the mat just
technically or strategically strategically and uh so once he got that mind that
made the big difference
and that's what carries him through right now and again it's like right now he's
in a big battle
to make the to make the olympic team which is going to happen here shortly and
uh because we eliminated
some of the weight classes see people don't understand in our sport because
they say well
they don't do it baseball they don't do in football people weigh 100 pounds
people weight 200 pounds on
the same team and you're competing against them but in a wrestling match a few
pounds makes a difference
when you're at that high level of excellence it's because of like physics you
know if you understand
physics pretty well and positioning and then you can probably be a better
wrestler just because of the
amount of weight and skill that you have within your own positions and so uh
for me it was like i could
wrestle anybody i wrestled 150 pounds at the world's and olympic games and i
could wrestle the heavyweight who
weighed 450 and and they go why could you wrestle him i said because i knew the
leverage and i knew this
this the skills and and the strategy and uh because of that uh it gave me the
opportunity to feel heavier
than him and i think that's what a lot of people said they say you don't look
that heavy but when i
wrestled you you felt like so heavy i said well it's because i knew my
positions so you know that that's
where like jordan burles is now he's so much better but not just in his uh
skills from on the mat it's a
lot in his brains that he knows he's good he's had a lot of practices where he's
done well i don't think
i lost a practice from my junior year in college so i had my junior year my
senior year then i had two
and a half more years so so that's four and a half years where i went to
practice and never lost a
wrestling practice and by that i mean i pretty much dominated and i usually
wrestled the bigger guys in
the room even though i was a lightweight just because i could and uh because of
that it gave me a lot of
confidence and and so people you know always ask you how you think you're gonna
do well you know i think
i'm gonna win you know and i i think uh i'm i i don't really think i pretty
much know i'm gonna win
so you know it's one of these things that when you have that much success it
works and that's where i
feel jordan burles is developed to but like i said he's got only six weight
classes as compared to eight
or nine or ten what we normally used to have he's got a world champion coming
down named dake that will
challenge him at that uh at that his weight so they're both highly credentialed
and so that's
going to be a big match coming up here probably pretty soon mental toughness is
one of the most
important aspects of wrestling obviously technique and fitness are huge but
mental toughness is what
defines wrestlers in my opinion because when you see wrestlers successful wrestlers
in my in you know
the ufc in particular it there's no one like them when when they come over to mma
you you recognize
like there's there's something special about them as athletes and i think that
it comes from the fact
that wrestling is so difficult the practices are so hard but in the world of
mental toughness where
mental toughness is one of the cornerstones you're known as a guy that stands
out like you stand out
amongst like like david goggins likes to say you're uncommon amongst uncommon
men like what what is
that like what what what made you stand out from these other wrestlers well i'm
going to jump forth to
my high school coach even though i got a lot before that but i always i just
remem